American Civil War

General John Bell Hoods tenure commanding the Confederate Army of Tennessee stood in marked contrast to that of his predecessor Joseph E. Johnston....

The campaign for Atlanta was pivotal to the outcome of the American Civil War. Roughly 190,000 men waged war across northern Georgia in a struggle ...

How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dr...

The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, was heavy, confusing, and decisive. Much of it consisted of short and often separate sim...

By the time Albert Castels Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 appeared in 1992, Savas Woodbury Publishers had already made importan...

With Rebel Falls, Tim Wendel takes us to late summer of 1864. The Civil War rages on. Sherman is marching on Atlanta, while the armies of Grant and...

Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation...

Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation...

Historians born during and after the Civil Rights movement have struggled to take the proslav­ery and pro-secession arguments of the eighteenth- an...

Award-winning authors Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg are back with the second and final installment of If We Are Striking for Pennsylva...

This book describes and illustrates the uniforms and personal equipment of the troops fielded by the Eastern and New England states that fought for...

This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is dee...

After the guns of Manassas fell silent, the opposing armies grappled for position wondering what would come next. Popular history has us believe th...

Fifteen years have passed since the publication of the last biography of Jeb Stuart. Several appeared during the last century lauding his contribut...

The Battle of Wises (Wyse) Forks, March 7-11, 1865, has long been thought of as nothing more than an insignificant skirmish during the final days o...

William Royston Geise was a young Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1970s when he researched and wrote The Confeder...

Joseph Eggleston Johnston was one of the original five full generals of the Confederacy. He graduated West Point in the same 1829 class as Robert E...

Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, commander of the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, was a brilliant tactician and strategist. Prior...

In October of 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood set out through Alabama on what would be the final campaign of the Army of Tennessee. One ev...

On July 1, 1863, Brigadier General Lysander Cutler commanded the first Union infantry to relieve Brigadier General John Bufords hard-pressed cavalr...

By the late summer of 1862, it appeared as though the United States would be permanently split in two, and by the beginning of September, General R...

Hoods Defeat near Foxs Gap is an exceptional analysis of Confederate Brigadier General John Bell Hoods troop movements during the battle of South M...